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Exodus 21
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21"These are the laws that you are to place before them:H4941H7760H6440 2"When you buy a Hebrew slave, he will serve six years. The seventh year he goes free, for nothing.H7069H5680H5650H8337H8141H5647H7637H3318H2670H2600 3If he came in single he leaves single. If he came in married he leaves with his wife.H935H1610H3318H1610H1167H802H802H3318 4If the master gives him a wife and she gave him sons and daughters, the wife and children stay with the master and he leaves by himself.H113H5414H802H3205H1121H1323H802H3206H113H3318H1610 5But suppose the slave should say, 'I love my master and my wife and children—I don't want my freedom,'H5650H559H559H157H113H802H1121H3318H2670 6then his master is to bring him before God and to a door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl, a sign that he is a slave for life.H113H5066H430H5066H1817H4201H113H7527H241H4836H5647H5769 7"When a man sells his daughter to be a handmaid, she doesn't go free after six years like the men.H376H4376H1323H519H3318H5650H3318 8If she doesn't please her master, her family must buy her back; her master doesn't have the right to sell her to foreigners since he broke his word to her.H7451H5869H113H3259H6299H4376H5237H5971H4910H898 9If he turns her over to his son, he has to treat her like a daughter.H3259H1121H6213H4941H1323 10If he marries another woman, she retains all her full rights to meals, clothing, and marital relations.H3947H312H7607H3682H5772H1639 11If he won't do any of these three things for her, she goes free, for nothing.H6213H7969H3318H2600H3701 12"If someone hits another and death results, the penalty is death.H5221H376H4191H4191H4191 13But if there was no intent to kill—if it was an accident, an 'act of God'—I'll set aside a place to which the killer can flee for refuge.H6658H430H579H3027H7760H4725H5127 14But if the murder was premeditated, cunningly plotted, then drag the killer away, even if it's from my Altar, to be put to death.H376H2102H7453H2026H6195H3947H4196H4191 15"If someone hits father or mother, the penalty is death.H5221H1H517H4191H4191 16"If someone kidnaps a person, the penalty is death, regardless of whether the person has been sold or is still held in possession.H1589H376H4376H4672H3027H4191H4191 17"If someone curses father or mother, the penalty is death.H7043H1H517H4191H4191 18"If a quarrel breaks out and one hits the other with a rock or a fist and the injured one doesn't die but is confined to bedH582H7378H376H5221H7453H68H176H106H4191H5307H4904 19and then later gets better and can get about on a crutch, the one who hit him is in the clear, except to pay for the loss of time and make sure of complete recovery.H6965H1980H2351H4938H5221H5352H5414H7674H7495H7495 20"If a slave owner hits a slave, male or female, with a stick and the slave dies on the spot, the slave must be avenged.H376H5221H5650H519H7626H4191H3027H5358H5358 21But if the slave survives a day or two, he's not to be avenged—the slave is the owner's property.H389H5975H3117H8147H5358H3701 22"When there's a fight and in the fight a pregnant woman is hit so that she miscarries but is not otherwise hurt, the one responsible has to pay whatever the husband demands in compensation.H582H5327H5062H802H2030H3206H3318H611H6064H6064H802H1167H7896H5414H6414 23But if there is further damage, then you must give life for life—H611H5414H5315H5315 24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,H5869H5869H8127H8127H3027H3027H7272H7272 25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.H3555H3555H6482H6482H2250H2250 26"If a slave owner hits the eye of a slave or handmaid and ruins it, the owner must let the slave go free because of the eye.H376H5221H5869H5650H5869H519H7843H7971H2670H8478H5869 27If the owner knocks out the tooth of the male or female slave, the slave must be released and go free because of the tooth.H5307H5650H8127H519H8127H7971H2670H8127 28"If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned. The meat cannot be eaten but the owner of the ox is in the clear.H7794H5055H376H802H4191H7794H5619H5619H1320H398H1167H7794H5355 29But if the ox has a history of goring and the owner knew it and did nothing to guard against it, then if the ox kills a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned and the owner given the death penalty.H7794H5056H8543H8032H5749H1167H8104H4191H376H802H7794H5619H1167H4191 30If a ransom is agreed upon instead of death, he must pay it in full as a redemption for his life.H7896H3724H5414H6306H5315H7896 31If a son or daughter is gored, the same judgment holds.H5055H1121H176H5055H1323H4941H6213 32If it is a slave or a handmaid the ox gores, thirty shekels of silver is to be paid to the owner and the ox stoned.H7794H5055H5650H519H5414H113H7970H8255H3701H7794H5619 33"If someone uncovers a cistern or digs a pit and leaves it open and an ox or donkey falls into it,H376H6605H953H376H3738H953H3680H7794H2543H5307 34the owner of the pit must pay whatever the animal is worth to its owner but can keep the dead animal.H1167H953H7999H7725H3701H1167H4191 35"If someone's ox injures a neighbor's ox and the ox dies, they must sell the live ox and split the price; they must also split the dead animal.H376H7794H5062H7453H4191H4376H2416H7794H2673H3701H4191H2673 36But if the ox had a history of goring and the owner knew it and did nothing to guard against it, the owner must pay an ox for an ox but can keep the dead animal.H3045H7794H5056H8543H8032H1167H8104H7999H7999H7794H7794H4191


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